Chemists take the sandwich course: A stack of molecular rings with a filling of metal atoms is providing a versatile recipe for novel families of materials full of high-tech promise
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The myth of the Mesozoic cannibals: Victorian naturalists portrayed ichthyosaurs as fearsome beasts with a penchant for cannibalism. But another look at the bones shows how wrong they were
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A strategy for the sea floor: The floor of the deep oceans, rich in valuable minerals, is ripe for exploitation. So we need to plan now to safeguard the seabed
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Keep building those bombs: ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory see no reason to stop making America's nuclear weapons just because the Cold War has ended
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Renewable energy: Britain's untapped resource - Next month sees the start of a parliamentary inquiry into why Britain lags so far behind other countries in exploiting renewable sources of energy
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Science: Big bang pins down missing neutrino's mass
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Science: Overstretched parents kidnap their child minders
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Technology: Taking wing to America
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Technology: Counting out the swabs
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Technology: Paper bike enters recycling race
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Technology: Neural network keeps fusion plasma in shape
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Technology: How to dismantle a nuclear warhead
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Technology: Will British power plants burn filthy new fuel?
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Technology: Cheap hologram printer steps into focus
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Science: Neutron star powers celestial oddity
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The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Hot frogs fall prey to pesticides
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The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Plague of humans
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Sea burial
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Children saved
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Selling the weather
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On a bicycle made for eight
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Free speech
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Space haggle
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Poisoned milk
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Appeal rejected
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The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Children reluctant to join the 'nerds'
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Surfers sue Pacific paper mills
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Mining banned
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North Africa saved from killer fly
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Dutch doctors call for legal euthanasia
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Nations seek green code for world trade
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Court ruling brings Bhopal prosecution closer
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For hire: Soviet physicists and chemists
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Judgment day for the spotted owl
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Ion channels bring Nobel prize to Germany
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Building confidence over biological weapons
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Suit and countersuit over dolphins' rights
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Iraq's atom bomb
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Sleeping pill ban puzzles doctors
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Opinion
Features
Chemists take the sandwich course: A stack of molecular rings with a filling of metal atoms is providing a versatile recipe for novel families of materials full of high-tech promise
Features
The myth of the Mesozoic cannibals: Victorian naturalists portrayed ichthyosaurs as fearsome beasts with a penchant for cannibalism. But another look at the bones shows how wrong they were
Features
A strategy for the sea floor: The floor of the deep oceans, rich in valuable minerals, is ripe for exploitation. So we need to plan now to safeguard the seabed
Features
Keep building those bombs: ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory see no reason to stop making America's nuclear weapons just because the Cold War has ended
Features
Renewable energy: Britain's untapped resource - Next month sees the start of a parliamentary inquiry into why Britain lags so far behind other countries in exploiting renewable sources of energy
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Thistle Diary: Dangerous islands in the sun - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Why industry fights shy of space - John Gilman relates the sad history of the crystal gazers
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Forum: Deep Thought and the human perspective - One draw doesn't make a winner, warns Ralph Estling en passant
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Review: An eye on the biosphere
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Review: The roots of knowledge
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Review: Mathematics in the cracks
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Review: At the computer's parallel face
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Forum: Laughing by numbers - Think of a joke. Now double it, says Sidney Perkowitz
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Forum: The hope and despair of African science - Martyn Kelly looks at the way African researchers see research - and their own futures
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Review: Revivalist physics
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Review: Biology's wild variety
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Review: Slimmer, fitter mathematics
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Talking Point: A balancing act for research priorities
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